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Hi my dear friends, followers and mainly listeners. I have some sad news.

I’m sorry my dears, but it looks like I’m not part of House of Prog anymore. Also very sad to see that didn’t make an official statement on the website, or at least a small post in the House of Prog group page with a message about why I ‘left’ the station. So sad that it has to be this way that House of Prog refuses to make an official statement, but it’s their choice not to do so.

Here’s my official statement: There were some struggles about the way the station and music gets promoted, and I gave my opinion about certain things. Sadly, my opinion triggered some people to feel very offended, which was not my intention.

No worries, I’m doing fine. I’m enjoying my break at the moment, and will continue making wonderful shows and doing interviews, probably for another radio station or website, and always for this one of course!

I want to thank everyone at House of Prog for the lovely years, they still do a great job and I will miss working together of course, it’s just time for me to move on and to grow further!

This Sunday (10 July) you will hear three interviews during this show!! I interviewed the band Mäläskä after their gig at De Hommel in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, in July 2016. We talked about their new tour, debut album and more!

I interviewed the bands Ashby and Profuna Ocean right before their gig at Progcity festival in May 2016. You really don’t want to miss this!

After this show you will hear a rerun of the Purple Flower show containing the interviews with Roine Stolt and John Myung, so please stay tuned!

Tune in at http://www.houseofprog.com/ and join us in chat! You can make your own House of Prog account or use your Facebook/Twitter account to join the chatroom!

A brand new band/project, established in 2016, doing their first (mini) European tour… That must be something to look out for! The band members Remy Stroomer and Petter Janse are far from unexperienced, they have worked wonderful together a couple of times before in a project named Free Arts Lab, which is also still active. Mäläskä’s debut album Uncle Jim’s Cidney Factory was just released before their tour started, and I had the honour to see them at music pub De Hommel in Vlaardingen. They told me it was going to be an evening completely based on improvisation, which made me very curious!Continue reading

This is a tough album to review. Not because it’s not my taste or that it isn’t good, but this is an album that demands your full attention and needs quite a few spins. There’s a lot happening in the music, even though most of the music is mostly on the calm and serene side.Continue reading